I never really play demo for sport games because its just too hard to tell if the games good or not by playing like 4-5mins for one half, I always just buy the game and test it out myself.
And yes you guess right, as far as I remembered, I picked up Pes 18 and 19 and then stopped playing after playing a few times, this also happened to Fifa 19. Last year was a bad soccer gaming year for me and I read across different forums, many people agreed.
So, I did the same thing this year, bought Pes 20 and will get Fifa 20 as well. Ok so enough talking about me, I am just going to focus on talking about Pes 20 now.
When I first got the game (I live in Hong Kong and we got the game a few days earlier), it was without the updates yet, my initial feeling was the game had improved from past few years, such as:
- the feeling of controlling the ball like its a physical thing (don't know if you get me),
- the graphics in terms of the look of the players, grass, stadium, etc. are quite nice,
- the movement of players especially when dribbling and tackling look very realistic
- you actually need to know how to play/watch football to play this game well, because now you can't just use speedy players and run past CPU, they will intercept and steal the ball, you have to work the ball around, find open space, do give and go, do some crossing, you need to be smart basically
But there are also things that really really bothered me such as:
- is so easy to defend, for high ball I will always win the header, for low ball, I can intercept CPU's dribbling easily
- The CPU doesn't go aggressive at me like they don't want to win the game, they keep passing sideways but not to the front, so every game has low scoring, the worst is even when they are losing or the game is tie, they are not showing they want to win
However, somehow, I feel like when they game is updated, things will change because I just got gut feeling that the game is stuck at the moment, so after last night, the game got updated and MAN THERE WERE BIG CHANGES! All the bad things I said above were gone:
- is NOT easy to defend anymore, I have to be smart to tackle or else CPU will punish me
- The CPU DOES GO aggressive at me and they want to win, they press me, and they want to score
So I played 2-3 games after the game was updated and man I had a great time, I really think this is a football game finally. And I can't believe not many ppl are giving credits to this game, to the point that there is not a thread here let us discuss, I really hope to hear what you guys have to say about the game after you download the first update!